awards

The National Oceanography Centre’s project officer for both RRS Discovery and James Cook, Edward Cooper, has been awarded an MBE for services to marine science. The announcement was made in the Queen’s birthday honours list this month.

Dr Russell Wynn has been appointed to a twelve-strong advisory group which will be responsible for recommending how some of the Natural Environment Research Council’s (NERC) funding should be spent.

Dr Elizabeth Kent has been awarded the Adrian Gill Prize by the Royal Meteorological Society for her dedicated research into air-sea interaction and marine climatology.

Oceanographer Professor Damon Teagle has been awarded highly prestigious Wolfson Research Merit Awards by the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of science.

Ocean and Earth Science Emeritus Professor Paul Tyler has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours. Professor Tyler, who was based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS) has been awarded the honour as a result of his research into deep-sea biology.

Professor Martin Palmer has been named as a Geochemical Fellow by the Geochemical Society and European Association of Geochemistry (EAG).

A prestigious award for achievement in underwater technology has been won by a marine physicist based at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) in Liverpool.

The David Partridge Award for Underwater Technology 2012 has been presented to the NOC’s Peter Foden at a ceremony at Trinity House in London.

The National Oceanography Centre this week said farewell to a research leader who has been at the forefront of UK underwater technology development for three decades.

Two scientists at the National Oceanography Centre in Liverpool have won prestigious awards from the Challenger Society

Congratulations to Dr Stephanie Henson who has been awarded the Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists of the European Geosciences Union.